I've taken a static HTML design for a site and have it almost completely moved over to Concrete5, but there are a few gotchas I've come across that deal with CSS and how to implement a couple of the objects from the old design into the new one.

First, I had a right column that had various "news" items that would get updated every so often. Each item was inside a .box div. In my code I had a top border on .box + .box (basically giving any .box after the first one on the page a top border to provide some visual separation.) Upon moving to Concrete5, this styling no longer works. I've tried inserting HTML content into the right column, but no luck. I've tried putting the editable area in my templates inside a .box div, but it just puts all of the editable content into one large .box div, not giving me the desired look I'm going for. Any thoughts on how to make this correctly happen?

Second, I used to have an active state to my navigation (header and footer) that gave a visual reference for users that worked easily in the static HTML. Now that I've moved over to Conrcrete5, I'm not exactly sure how to implement this styling. I'm using the Auto-Nav in my navigation areas.

Third, is there any way to not include the home page in the header nav but include it in the footer nav?

Thanks in advance,
Steve